Over the past thirty years, numerous studies confirmed that new teachers do not have the requisite knowledge to understand the complex interrelationships among management, behavior, and academic tasks. An important missing piece in the literature is how the concerns of experienced teachers differ from those cited by beginning teachers. Based on…

By administering an attitude survey to 3,328 parents of elementary school students, use of positive and negative Likert item stems was analyzed. Respondents who answered positive/negative item pairs that were parallel in meaning consistently were compared with those who answered inconsistently. Implications for construction of affective measures…

Teachers' self-perceived needs (SPNs) for staff development and the effects of teachers' levels of experience on SPNs were studied for 1,792 public school teachers in Connecticut. The highest SPN was in use of technology and resources, and the lowest was in instruction. SPN for training declined with teacher experience. (SLD)